"Strikeforce: Destruction" official weigh-in photos

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Official weigh-ins for “Strikeforce: Destruction” took place Thursday at the Hotel DeAnza in San Jose, Calif., and after some early wrangling, all fighters officially made weight for the event.

The weigh-ins preceded Friday’s event at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. The night’s main card airs live on HDNet.

Strikeforce world light heavyweight champion Bobby Southworth, a cast member from “The Ultimate Fighter 1″ who meets fellow UFC veteran Renato “Babalu” Sobral in the night’s only title fight, was the talk of the weigh-ins. The 38-year-old fighter weighed in at a lean 204 pounds and looks to be in the best shape of his career.

Aside from the weigh-ins beginning more than an hour after its scheduled start, the only other hiccup occured with the night’s lone female bout. Although originally scheduled to fight at 130 pounds, Lina Kvokov knew ahead of time she was unlikely to make the cutoff. Couture green lit the bout for 133 pounds, and no penalties or fines were issued to Kvokov. After stripping off her clothes, Kvokov weighed in at 133 pounds exactly. Couture comfortably weighed 132 pounds.

“We knew that she wasn’t going to be able to make it down to 130 (pounds),” Couture told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “So I got to eat and drink all day. I said, ‘Hey, we’ll take it. I’ll get to … stay hydrated all day.'”

A few fighters were surprised to learn that they’d get one shot at making weight on their initial attempt. Seemingly straying from past procedures, CSAC officials warned fighters that if they had any doubts about making weight that they should go ahead and strip down naked for their weigh-in. In other words, fighters couldn’t first weigh in to decide if they needed to then remove clothing, which is the norm with just about every state commission that regulates MMA. Main-card fighter Joe Riggs was the most irate at the absurdity of the procedures, which caught at least a couple fighters by surprise.

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